Joe Athialy

South Asia Coordinator

Joe Athialy is BIC s Coordinator for South Asia. Formerly the Campaigns and Communications Coordinator of Amnesty International (AI) in India, Joe steered AI s national campaigns which included moratorium on the death penalty, promotion of housing rights and furthering corporate accountability. Learn more...

Alvin Carlos

Development Director

Alvin has been with BIC since December 2005. He has previously supported BIC's work on ADB and World Bank projects and policies in Asia. Learn more...

Nadia Daar

Senior Associate, Middle East and North Africa Program

Nadia joined the Bank Information Center in November 2008. She grew up in Muscat, Oman and moved to Canada to pursue her undergraduate degree in Political Science, Economics, and Music History and Culture at the University of Toronto. Learn more...

Chad Dobson

Executive Director

Chad Dobson joined the Bank Information Center (BIC) as its new Executive Director on December 10, 2007. Chad founded BIC in 1987 and was its Executive Director until 1996. Learn more...

Amy Ekdawi

Manager, Middle East and North Africa Program

Amy joined the Bank Information Center in May 2007 as a Program Manager for the new Middle East and North Africa Program. Before joining BIC she was Co-Director of People Advocacy. Learn more...

Katelyn Gallagher

MENA Program Assistant

Katelyn joined the Bank Information Center in September 2011. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland with degrees in Arabic Studies and Government and Politics and a minor in Middle East Studies. Learn more...

Jelson Garcia

Manager, Asia Program

Jelson Garcia is the Manager for BIC's Asia Program. A Filipino national, Jelson has previously worked for a number of local and international groups, which facilitated his close interaction with indigenous communities, federations of farmers, rural workers and fishermen and the demobilized combatants. Learn more...

Paulina Garzon

Consultant

Paulina, a native Ecuadorian, has been working on environmental justice and community rights in the Amazon for more than 20 years. She was the president of Acci n Ecol gica and an original Steering Committee member of the Amazon Coalition. Learn more...

Nadia Hadad

Program Associate, Mekong/South East Asia, Asia Program

Based in Jakarta, Nadia joined BIC s Asia Program as the Indonesia Project Coordinator in September 2007, and on May 15, 2008, became the Program Associate for the Mekong/South East Asia Program. Prior to BIC, Nadia was with the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) for seven years. Learn more...

Angelina Jarrouj

MENA Program Assistant

Angelina joined the BIC team in September 2010 as an intern in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Program. Her work will revolve around MENA's focus countries and partners, with particular research on Lebanon. Learn more...

Joshua Klemm

Manager, Africa Program

Joshua joined BIC s Africa Program in April 2006 after spending a year and a half with the local Transparency International chapter in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the National Accountability Group. He worked with NAG from the time its office began operations, heading its research team while training the local staff on project development, report writing and basic computer literacy. Learn more...

Josh Lichtenstein

Manager, Forest Campaign

Josh joined BIC in October 2008. He has been an organizer and activist working on development and environment issues for more than twenty years. Learn more...

Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs

Consultant, Europe and Central Asia Program

Heike joined BIC in 2004 as the Manager of the Europe and Central Asia program and since 2006 she has been a consultant to BIC. Heike has worked for more than fourteen years in the development and environment fields for both the private and nonprofit sectors and has consulted to a wide range of organizations, including NGOs, the US government, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. Learn more...

Vince McElhinny

Manager, BICECA Project (LAC Program)

Vince brings 15 years of research and advocacy experience in Latin America specializing in trade, integration and rural development policy. He worked for three years at InterAction managing an NGO advocacy program around the Inter-American Development Bank, and has consulted widely on participation, transparency and accountability issues related to the IDB, World Bank and sub-regional banks in Latin America. Learn more...

Norly Mercado

Mekong/Southeast Asia Coordinator

Norly has thirteen years of extensive experience in civil society network in Asia coordinating advocacy work, research, problem project monitoring as well as resource mobilization. Before BIC, she was with the Penang-based Pesticide Action Network-Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) and the People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) in her capacity as Coordinator, then eventually as Programme Consultant. Learn more...

Anuradha Munshi

Research Fellow, South Asia office

Anu has previously worked with the Society for Rural-Urban and Tribal Initiative (SRUTI), a support organization for people s movements in India, as a Programme Executive for Advocacy and Research. She has extensive experience in networking and advocacy for the protection of unorganized sector workers and migrant laborers along with people s organizations across India s four states - Orissa, Chattisgarh, Uttrakhand and Delhi. Learn more...

Hetal Patel

Senior Finance Associate

Hetal joined BIC in April 2008 as the Finance Associate. Hetal received her B. Learn more...

Mark Rentschler

Director of Campaigns

Mark Rentschler started as BIC s Director of Campaigns in April 2010. Mark has over ten years of experience in MDB reform work including positions at USAID and US Treasury, where he coordinated environmental and social review of proposed MDB projects, policies, and funding negotiations; the White House; and the CS Mott Foundation. Learn more...

Mahender Singh

New Delhi Accounts & Administrative Assistant

Mahender joined BIC's Delhi office in June 2009 as the Accounts/Administrative Assistant. Previously he was handling administration and Library documentation work for Intercultural Resources, a Delhi based NGO for 3 years. Learn more...

Chonthicha Srisuk

Administrative/Finance Assistant, Mekong/South East Asia, Asia Program

Chonthicha joined BIC's Mekong office in August 2007 as the Administrative/Finance Assistant. She holds the master's program in Educational Technology and Communications at the school of Educational Studies at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University. Learn more...

Erica Stratton

Associate, Information Services Program

Erica Stratton joined the BIC team in December 2011. She graduated from St. Learn more...

Andrea Surette

Executive Assistant

Andrea joined BIC in May 2010. She recently graduated from James Madison University with a BBA in International Business and a minor in Spanish. Learn more...

Christian Velasquez-Donaldson

Associate, Latin America Program

Christian, before joining BIC, worked with the Regional Adviser on International Trade of the UN-Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) doing research on private-public alliance for export development and economic strategies from Latin American and extra-regional case studies. He was a research fellow at the Institutions and Governance Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Institute for Advance Development Studies (INESAD), a Bolivian think tank, doing research on the Bolivian hydrocarbon policy before and after its nationalization, the sector s fiscal policy and the internal allocation system of the sector s revenues. Learn more...

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